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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
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PKD short stories are the perfect bedtime reading. He isn't exactly the best at transitions so you'll be like "did I nod off for a paragraph or was that transition clunky?" and it doesn't matter. You'll be so charmed by the general sense of things and the ideas are brilliant and too much fun to care. Sometimes your doorknob will talk shit to you in deeply cutting, existential ways, reality will be whipped around like an air hose popped loose, and at least once per story someone will yell "Keeee-rist!" It's a wild ride and each story is usually better than the movies that came from them.
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March 27, 2016
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March 27, 2016
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July 6, 2021
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July 6, 2021
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Malola wrote: "Huh... I'm puzzled. Why not five stars?Is it just the transitions?"
Oh yep, that’s my mistake, meant to hit 5
Sookie wrote: "do you have a favorite pkd novel?"To be honest I’ve not read many. I really like Man in the High Tower and Time Out of Joint though
s.penkevich wrote: "Sookie wrote: "do you have a favorite pkd novel?"To be honest I’ve not read many. I really like Man in the High Tower and Time Out of Joint though"
Ah, I see. I think you mean Man in the High Castle. :)
I can deal with "too much fun to care," and not just in the province of books!
Sookie wrote: "s.penkevich wrote: "Sookie wrote: "do you have a favorite pkd novel?"To be honest I’ve not read many. I really like Man in the High Tower and Time Out of Joint though"
Ah, I see. I think you mea..."
Haha oops yea that is correct, seems I must have been in the High castle when I wrote that
Swaroop wrote: "s.penkevich,Wonderful - thank you!
Some of his stories are 'spooky', and may keep you awake the whole night, so maybe better to read them during day time 🙂."
Good point! There are a few super unsettling ones, and I really enjoy his brand of paranoia…it’s uniquely bleak in a way where the individual is rather meaningless in the grand whole of everything going on. Did you ever catch that miniseries they did of some of PKD’s stories, ? It was VERY hit or Miss but the good ones were quite fun and distressing.
Ken wrote: "I can deal with "too much fun to care," and not just in the province of books!"Haha yes indeed, sometimes you just gotta enjoy the ride.
s.penkevich wrote: "Oh yep, that’s my mistake, meant to hit 5"Did you nod off or was that clunkiness on your part? Great review b-t-w
Finn McCool wrote: "s.penkevich wrote: "Oh yep, that’s my mistake, meant to hit 5"Did you nod off or was that clunkiness on your part? Great review b-t-w"
It was both! Haha also I just realized you changed your name to Finn McCool which is F’in cool!
Is it just the transitions?